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Pre making plant-based porridge for simple sweet nourishing breakfasts full of long-lasting energy: in a small saucepan mix a nut milk with pre-cooked quinoa, organic mixed berries, peeled pears. Enjoy a portion with coconut yoghurt, honey, and fresh passionfruit. Fill 1 or 2 jars with remaining porridge, a little extra milk plus chia seeds, and refrigerate. Over next 1-2 days reheat the quinoa/chia/berry porridge in small saucepan and serve with extra nut milk, honey and fresh mint leaves or lime rind. This is a delightful treat... has the aroma of a cafe breakfast. 🌱 🫐 🍐 🍓

Quasi-vegetarian nachos. It just means you are a bit flexible with the options, accommodating all the eaters at the table as best as possible, even if you need to divide a vegan meal in half to accommodate dairy lovers, or those gradually adapting out of a predominately fish or poultry based diet. Nachos with organic sea salt corn chips, marinated Italian chickpeas, diced tomato, cashew cream, coconut yoghurt, fresh parsley, salsa, sauerkraut, red onion. One half with vegan coconut shredded cheese, the other half with dairy cheese. Still a family meal, for all to enjoy round the table. Packed full of good plant-based ingredients 🌱 #quasivegetarian #nachos #familymeals

Can you make crumpets at home? Yes it’s easy like pancakes. You can eat them now, wrap them for later, or stack them in the freezer to eat anytime. My home made crumpets include water, yeast, SR flour, salt and are cooked in rice bran oil - similar to damper, really. #vegan #breakfasts whereas crumpets from the supermarket contain many more ingredients including chemicals 😕. They contain Wheat Flour, Water, Raising Agents (450, 500), lodised Salt, Dextrose, Preservatives (282, 234), Vitamins (Thiamin, Folic Acid) and are linked to poor behaviors like ADHD in school age children as well as skin rashes, inflammation and other allergic symptoms. If you have a weak immune system or gut lining it’s best to avoid refined grains including wheat, which naturally includes gluten.

MUSHROOM MISO BROTH: In 20 minutes or less, in one saucepan, we combine garlic, rice bran oil, bring to top of saucepan with water, ginger, spring onions, carrots, a variety of mushrooms, pak choy, miso paste, silken tofu, nori, coconut sugar, tamari, sesame oil, five spice, salt & pepper. Mushrooms make me crazy! I can’t get enough of them, I’ll tell you why: because I trained my inner rainforest. Did you know 😳⁉️ when we eat, we are not just feeding our human body. We are actually feeding the millions of beneficial and not-so-beneficial bacteria in our gut. And it is now becoming understood that these bacteria (beneficial or not) are controlling, in a large part, our food cravings via chemical & hormonal messages to our brains. What I’ve tested over the last year is that by starving particular bacteria (beneficial or not), they die off, and the food cravings cease. My son and I completely decided to try not eating poultry for a while, and eliminated eggs & chicken in 5-6 weeks easily by going cold-turkey, and “just noticing” the cravings, and talking about how the bacteria - the rainforest in our body - was sending messages to our brain to feed it chicken or eggs or salty snacks or oils, and we could override it. 2 months later we all noticed how the smell of chicken or eggs completely turned out stomachs and we couldn’t imagine eating them happily again. Proving the theory. Do you have a craving for a non-helpful food? Think of salty, oily, sugary foods your body does NOT thank you for? Or do you want to stop giving your money to an industry that is not sensitive to animal welfare? Try focusing on the rainforest in you and give yourself some compassion: you are not powerless. You are feeding a rainforest. Just control that population of bacteria in your gut by training it. I hope this tip (something I learned from my food coach @wildly__well coach at Institute for Integrative Nutrition) serves you this winter in the belly warmer months.

Here is a perfect example of a Quasi-Vegetarian home in action 🥰 What I love most about the purity and flexibility of this guiding compass called “Quasi-Vegetarian” is that you can start with plants and then add more elements to the plate, specific to the person’s special dietary needs and choices. In this one, I started with a vegetable broth (think, coconut oil, onion, garlic, mushrooms, pak choy, coconut aminos, miso paste, tamari, dried herbs, fresh coriander). Then added into individual bowls - rice vermicelli (for the kids), extra mushrooms (for the mushroom lover), poached eggs (for the egg lovers but non-salmon eating), pan-fried salmon (for the salmon lover who doesn’t eat egg), silken tofu for the tofu fans, pomegranate seeds for the sweet-tooth, extra tamari for the salty-tooth, and one with the lot for the eater of everything! And all dressed with sesame seeds. In this very easy way we can all have a favorite dish, each dish not quite like the one next to it, but still a shared meal experience. 1) Start with vegan as a meal base 2) add extra vegetable protein option for the vegan plates 3) add extra bread/noodles/rice/potato for those hungrier plates 4) add the egg or chicken option for those diets 5) add the seafood selection for those diets. If food is generally pre-cooked or requires only a quick boil or little pan-fry, it’s very easy and fast to cook for all diet types in this way 😁 this meal from start to served in 20 minutes. #quasivegetarian #homestead #family #healthyfood #diet

I don’t use a planner: instead I completely structure my day around the weather. You kind of have to, when living a Homestead life. There are chores every.single.day. Some are perfect for rainy weather, some for sunny weather, some for windy days, some for freezing days, others for steamy hot days. And if you run out of chores (ah-hem, never), there are weeds to pull for the safety of the cows & horses (any kind of days!)... But I have to say I absolutely love every single chore I have and I love being spontaneous and reading the day mindfully and respectfully. This work, this home-making homeschooling homesteading life, so consciously designed. And the moments, so beautiful. Necessary to pause and savour them looking up to the sky and remembering that it’s because of the weather this day, that this moment exists. Like today, the sun shining, gentle breeze calm or still... perfect for getting onto knees in the garden beds, laying cardboard over grass and spreading mulch, and planting saved lettuce, pak choy, spring onion, baby spinach and coriander (don’t throw out, re-plant!). Finishing the day with a sip of a boutique vegan red enjoying these stunning flowers picked by the kids ... they felt it too. Today was a day for enjoying the garden and all its potential.

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Oh my heart. These people who I love so much. My cousins, my kids cousins. Wish I caught a few more of us on my camera but the 🥶 got too much for my littlest! Winter solstice titty-vista style thank you Nads & Geoff xxx @jetro_30 @nadsiamy @ilikeredapples @nate_dogg83 @tamara_lea__ @mat84b

7 little ducklings. Incubated over Autumn and born in winter. 7 little ducklings, 7 little newborns to nurture, comfort, feed, save, guide, keep warm and reassure at night, play with... life is busy with 7 little ducklings 🐥

Winter homeschool feels 🍲 📖 🍴

‘‘Twas about time we evened out the numbers in this family. Girl x 3, Boy x 5. Think I’ve still got 2 girl places left to even things out perfectly. 2 more mares perhaps 🤔 🐴 😍

The view. My life right now is deliciously “kids”. I can’t conceal it. I hardly have a photo without showing it. Who am I? A mum. Thoroughly in love with it. Because I know in ten years, when life looks different, I’ll look back on these years with this same smile. Deeply exhausted. Deeply satisfied. Deeply in love. Deeply excited. Deeply grateful. #nofilter #nofilterneeded #honesty

Could it be a prettier classroom? #homeschool #tuesday #joy #pets #farmschool #picniclessons

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